I see many people asking online for suggestions of books to read. So, a few days ago I posted the following question on a Facebook Group page called Aspiring Authors United:
Do you remember the very first book you couldn’t put down or couldn’t wait to get back to?
Now some of the books mentioned are obviously children’s books, which is natural for those of us who fell in love with books at a very early age. Who knows, many of you may still enjoy reading those books or at least recommending them to your children or grand children.
- Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
- The Rats by James Herbert
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
- A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
- A Stranger in the Mirror by Sydney Sheldon
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
- The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
- The Cave of Time by Edward Packard
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
- Lord of Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald and Mercer Mayer
- Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
- Lucky by Jackie Collins
- Tom Swift and His Flying Lab by Victor Appleton II
- Rascal by Sterling North
- A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee by David Crockett
Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz - The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
- Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
The Foundation by Isaac Asimov - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- My Friend the Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg and Amelie Glienke
- Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford
- Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
- The Language of Pao by Jack Vance
- Clan of the Cave Bears by Jean M. Auel
- Vince Flynn and Brad Thor books
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Christine by Stephen King
- Raise the Titanic by Clive Cussler
- The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
- Flowers in the attic by VC. Andrews.
- The Secret of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
- The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
- Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
- Sing to Me of Dreams by Kathryn Lynn Davis
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Trixie Belden Mysteries by Julie Campbell
- Star Wars New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory by Greg Keyes
- Grimms Fairy Tales
- King Arthur
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, by Father Chiniquy
- A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Warriors by Erin Hunter
- They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
- The Vanishing Shadow by Margaret Sutton
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
- A Hero Ain’t Nothing but a Sandwich by Alice Childress
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Dragon Lance Chronicles by M Weis
- Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
- Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
- Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
- The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and Alton Raible
- On a Riotous Day by Naushad Valiyakath
- Young Visitors to Mars by Richard Mace Elam Jr. and Charles H. Geer
- Nancy Drew books
- Anything by Asimov
- All the books by Torey L Hayden.
- 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist
- Judas Kiss by Victoria Holt
- No Greater Love by Danelle Steele
- Remember me by Christopher Pike
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Little House on the prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prester John by John Buchan
- North Cape by Joe Poyer
- Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
- Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson
- Deception Point by Dan Brown
- Katherine by Anya Seaton
- The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
- Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
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